alt Hacker News> TASK REQUEST: Clear, not too long not too short prompt
Why do you think there's such a thing as too long for an LLM prompt? You'll run into context window limits at some point, but the more verbose you are with what you ask of it, the better the results will be.
>> t the more verbose you are with what you ask of it, the better the results will be.
Trivially falsifiable:
"Context Length Alone Hurts LLM Performance Despite Perfect Retrieval"
https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-emnlp.1264/
"Large Language Models Can Be Easily Distracted by Irrelevant Context"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.00093